While strolling through a graveyard on a moonless nightI saw an apparition of transparent lightBeside a headstone was a strange ethereal headWith tomb-like looks, yet not irrevocably dead"Hi there", I said.

"You must not venture through this place!" the visage cried."I have no necrophilic motive", I replied,Hoping—nay, praying—that the specter felt the same.It glared, and told me to substantiate my claimOr die in shame.

So I explained the cause of my nocturnal walk:My melancholy spirit made me seek the dark.A lambent arm appeared. "Look thither", howled the ghost,At all the souls that call this cemetery host.Dude, you'd be toast!"

While strolling through a graveyard on a moonless nightI saw an apparition of transparent lightBeside a headstone was a strange ethereal headWith tomb-like looks, yet not irrevocably dead"Hi there", I said.

"You must not venture through this place!" the visage cried."I have no necrophilic motive", I replied,Hoping—nay, praying—that the specter felt the same.It glared, and told me to substantiate my claimOr die in shame.

So I explained the cause of my nocturnal walk:My melancholy spirit made me seek the dark.A lambent arm appeared. "Look thither", howled the ghost,At all the souls that call this cemetery host.Dude, you'd be toast!"

While strolling through a graveyard on a moonless nightI saw an apparition of transparent lightBeside a headstone was a strange ethereal headWith tomb-like looks, yet not irrevocably dead"Hi there", I said.

"You must not venture through this place!" the visage cried."I have no necrophilic motive", I replied,Hoping—nay, praying—that the specter felt the same.It glared, and told me to substantiate my claimOr die in shame.

So I explained the cause of my nocturnal walk:My melancholy spirit made me seek the dark.A lambent arm appeared. "Look thither", howled the ghost,At all the souls that call this cemetery host.Dude, you'd be toast!"

While strolling through a graveyard on a moonless nightI saw an apparition of transparent lightBeside a headstone was a strange ethereal headWith tomb-like looks, yet not irrevocably dead"Hi there", I said.

"You must not venture through this place!" the visage cried."I have no necrophilic motive", I replied,Hoping—nay, praying—that the specter felt the same.It glared, and told me to substantiate my claimOr die in shame.

So I explained the cause of my nocturnal walk:My melancholy spirit made me seek the dark.A lambent arm appeared. "Look thither", howled the ghost,At all the souls that call this cemetery host.Dude, you'd be toast!"

While strolling through a graveyard on a moonless nightI saw an apparition of transparent lightBeside a headstone was a strange ethereal headWith tomb-like looks, yet not irrevocably dead"Hi there", I said.

"You must not venture through this place!" the visage cried."I have no necrophilic motive", I replied,Hoping—nay, praying—that the specter felt the same.It glared, and told me to substantiate my claimOr die in shame.

So I explained the cause of my nocturnal walk:My melancholy spirit made me seek the dark.A lambent arm appeared. "Look thither", howled the ghost,At all the souls that call this cemetery host.Dude, you'd be toast!"

I am really impressed, but, alas, I followed it withoutmaking any contributions. You guys are too good for me.When I thought it was going to go one way, it took aturn. I was sort of rooting for the ghost for awhile,I'll confess.

(I suppose that "end it" was a poor choice, since some of you assumed that the poem was over. I revised the last line to correct that assumption.)

The Ghost

While strolling through a graveyard on a moonless nightI saw an apparition of transparent lightBeside a headstone was a strange ethereal headWith tomb-like looks, yet not irrevocably dead"Hi there", I said.

"You must not venture through this place!" the visage cried."I have no necrophilic motive", I replied,Hoping—nay, praying—that the specter felt the same.It glared, and told me to substantiate my claimOr die in shame.

So I explained the cause of my nocturnal walk:My melancholy spirit made me seek the dark.A lambent arm appeared. "Look thither", howled the ghost,At all the souls that call this cemetery host.Dude, you'd be toast!"

While strolling through a graveyard on a moonless nightI saw an apparition of transparent lightBeside a headstone was a strange ethereal headWith tomb-like looks, yet not irrevocably dead"Hi there", I said.

"You must not venture through this place!" the visage cried."I have no necrophilic motive", I replied,Hoping—nay, praying—that the specter felt the same.It glared, and told me to substantiate my claimOr die in shame.

So I explained the cause of my nocturnal walk:My melancholy spirit made me seek the dark.A lambent arm appeared. "Look thither", howled the ghost,At all the souls that call this cemetery host.Dude, you'd be toast!"

While strolling through a graveyard on a moonless nightI saw an apparition of transparent lightBeside a headstone was a strange ethereal headWith tomb-like looks, yet not irrevocably dead"Hi there", I said.

"You must not venture through this place!" the visage cried."I have no necrophilic motive", I replied,Hoping—nay, praying—that the specter felt the same.It glared, and told me to substantiate my claimOr die in shame.

So I explained the cause of my nocturnal walk:My melancholy spirit made me seek the dark.A lambent arm appeared. "Look thither", howled the ghost,At all the souls that call this cemetery host.Dude, you'd be toast!"

While strolling through a graveyard on a moonless nightI saw an apparition of transparent light.Beside a headstone was a strange ethereal headWith tomb-like looks, yet not irrevocably dead"Hi there", I said.

"You must not venture through this place!" the visage cried."I have no necrophilic motive", I replied,Hoping—nay, praying—that the specter felt the same.It glared, and told me to substantiate my claimOr die in shame.

So I explained the cause of my nocturnal walk:My melancholy spirit made me seek the dark.A lambent arm appeared. "Look thither", howled the ghost,At all the souls that call this cemetery host.Dude, you'd be toast!"